So I messed up the other day and read a statistic online regarding a percentage of people with harm ocd and mental/anxiety disorders as a whole harming and/or killing themselves... While the percentage wasn't huge, it was still a percentage/larger than I wish that I hadnt accidentally seen... I'm sorry for the huge trigger, but that currently has me still stuck in a panic mode right now.

Username: pureolifepureolife

Date posted: 4y ago

This could be a great exposure for ERP for you! Find the article with that stat and bookmark it. Once a day, read it. As you do: do nothing to neutralize, change, cancel out, or get rid of any intrusive thoughts and anxieties that pop up. With each new thought, just allow it to be there. Accept that it’s happening, ie “I’m having doubts about whether I’ll act out my fears,” and then just sit with it. Hold that and feel it without doing anything to make yourself feel better or distracted or safer. Just sit. And let it dissipate and leave on its own. We often try so hard to run from doubt and fear. But if we just take the time to feel it, it often leaves on its own.

Username: DianaaaDianaaa

Date posted: 4y ago

I saw that one a while back 😂 it was indeed terrifying. But once I accepted that thought, that fact as maybe applying to me, maybe not, accepting the uncertainty that I may or may not do it, then my anxiety eventually fell away. Feel that panic and wait for it to pass and resist compulsions. And when it comes back it will be less and less!

Username: tonytiger82tonytiger82

Date posted: 4y ago

Thank all of you!! After reading so many great things on that particular article, it (ironically) ended with a very scary stat, I've never really felt much depression (as far as I know) but have dealt with numerous types of anxiety my whole life, the whole harm ocd occurred after listening to some music by Kurt Cobain and watching some horrible 9/11 videos on youtube a few years ago, the suicidal/harm OCD went away on its own for a couple of years but I suddenly started having the thoughts again long hours at a job while drunking caffeine energy drinks everyday to stay alert at work.

Username: DianaaaDianaaa

Date posted: 4y ago

Bruh that's my theme too! It sucks :) but what ur doing (ive never really been depressed) etc that is trying to disprove ur ocd and ruminating in the likelihood of it. You may be depressed. You may not. Accept you may be suicidal, accepf the anxiety that will come with it!

Username: tonytiger82tonytiger82

Date posted: 4y ago

Thank you so much!!

Username: Hope8

Date posted: 5y ago

I shared on Instagram about what it is like to have harm ocd yesterday for mental health awareness day, and now I cant stop thinking that this was a terrible thing to do....My mom told me that I shouldn’t have said anything on social media because a future employer or school could think I’m violent, so I took down the post. I can’t stop thinking that now all of my friends and family think I’m a terrible violent person because I shared some of the intrusive thoughts that go through my head in an effort to get people to understand... I’ve been repeating an exposure of saying how I’m going to be arrested, my family will disown me, Im going to end up homeless because everyone will think I’m a murderer, etc, but I’m still just so stressed about it, despite the ERP....

Username: cam1724

Date posted: 1y ago

Trigger warning! Harm ocd

Hi guys. So idk who all has read about the Lindsay Clancy case, but ever since it’s been brought out, my harm ocd has sky rocketed. With thoughts towards my fiancé and even my dog 😞 I don’t have any kids, but the idea of losing control one day and acting on these thoughts is really getting to me. My biggest theme for years was harm, then went to suicidal for 2 years, and now I’m right back to harm and it’s freaking me out 😞

Username: ughhhh

Date posted: 32w ago

I hate when ocd does this

I hate that ocd not only latches onto people/things you love. But I hate how easily triggered it can make you and compare yourself to actual scary/bad people. TikTok has been such a big trigger of mine because I keep seeing crime cases, people harming people/younger ppl, and my most recent trigger someone potentially harming their pet. When I see all these things my brain tries to make connections to my past actions/things I said/ etc to try to find connections to how I’m also bad like them and I should just end it all before I truly end up evil. It scares me I don’t want to be an evil person or bad or worse things. I’m not like those people but my brain says other wise. How do I combat this? I can’t stop thinking about my latest trigger because I feel like it’s an old theme resurfacing and I’m so scared-please advice? Explanations? Why does this disorder exist?

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